Avoid using any retirement savings to make ends meet, especially if you are under 59.5-years-old as there are penalties for early withdrawal. Man empties piggy bank after 10 years—not ready for how ...

Stop and think about it. We pay our North Carolina legislators $13,951 annually, plus about $3,000 per month per diem when in session and working for us in Raleigh. It’s not a huge chunk of change, of ...

The budget votes began two days into the start of the 2026 fiscal year, after lawmakers passed a stopgap budget Oct. 1. The budget cuts many state agencies but provides about $1.1 billion extra for ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The federal government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy between $7 billion and $14 billion, shaving up to 2% from gross domestic product in the fourth quarter due to ...

The federal government has been shut down for almost four weeks, with no end in sight. New! Get more context or dive into the details with Ask The Post AI. But even if Congress finds a way out of its ...

Congress is running out of time to avert another fiscal crisis in the middle of the current government shutdown standoff — and it’s leaving Republicans with few options other than to try to extend ...

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I was struck, no, dumbfounded by this: Debt funded all federal government spending in 2025. The federal government plans to spend a total of $7 trillion in fiscal 2025 but only bring in $5.16 trillion ...

WASHINGTON — When funding lapses and the federal government shuts down, the White House always has a degree of latitude to dictate how, and whom, the impacts hit. And President Trump is using that ...

Republican leaders are making plans for a new, longer continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels as the government shutdown drags into its fourth week. Consensus is growing ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. government shutdown has entered its third week, delaying federal payments to Georgia Tech and impacting over $100 million per month in federally funded research expenses. Georgia ...

When the government shutdown ends, Donald Trump will have succeeded in staging the single biggest expansion of presidential power in American history because of the single largest shift in the ...